The wife of an Indian farm labourer
who was dumped outside his home and left to die after an
industrial accident with his severed arm placed on a vegetable
picking box on Thursday had a bad turn and had to be treated for
shock by an ambulance at Latina south of Rome.
Satnam Singh's employer Antonello Lovato, who abandoned him
without medical care, is set to face charges of aggravated
manslaughter.
The incident has returned the spotlight on gangmastering and
slave-like conditions endured by migrant farm workers in much of
Italy, especially the south.
Singh, 31, is one of thousands of largely Sikh Indians employed
by 'agro mafias' in and around Latina, a new town founded by
Mussolini in 1932 after the Fascist dictator reclaimed the
Pontine Marshes.
Singh's wife was said to be finding it hard to accept the death
of her husband, who lost his arm when it was trapped in a
plastic fruit wrapping machine.
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